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It is a mess.
Ve’ahavta is getting reports from the ground in Haiti, from our partners that people are sleeping outside – little children, orphans – afraid that another earthquake will come and eat them up.
Not enough tents are available to protect them from the coming rains. Those damn drops. Humanitarians are reporting over and over that they need respite from the horrific conditions and what they have witnessed.
Haiti is a hell hole and all this talk about rebuilding is paramount to the idea of creating city out of the archaeological rubble unearthed under Jerusalem. The streets of Port-au-Prince are rubbles not conducive to structural rehabilitation – at least not yet.
We, the world citizens, needs to mourn the passing of this country. While we will not abandon its people, in the case of Ve’ahavta, its orphans; it is difficult to have hope about resurrecting it.
The stories are bad. They are sad. They are what we would have expected when Sodom was destroyed by God, total and utter destruction with not an ounce of Godly affection. There was no break for Haiti and its people. None!!!
But we continue to work there looking for tents, and searching for food and water to feed the children. Where they will go is anybody’s guess. Who will watch over them? There is no choice. We will all have to stay in the game.
For how long? Forever.
Know your blessings and help the people of Haiti.
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